Quotes from Philip Yancey
But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.
- Philip Yancey
What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering. That is the real test of the person: What is our personal attitude to life and its changes and chances?
- Philip Yancey
Because of our failure to live out our beliefs, our own lack of moral clarity, and our meddling with partisan politics, Western culture no longer looks to Christianity as its moral source.
- Philip Yancey
Modern humanity does not perceive the world as worth God dying for. We Christians must demonstrate it.
- Philip Yancey
Grace comes free of charge to people who do not deserve it
- Philip Yancey
We understand God best, Dorothy Sayers suggests, by thinking of God as a creative artist. Imagine God as an engineer or watchmaker or immovable force, and you will go astray. God's image shines through us most clearly in the act of creation-comprising the three stages of Idea, Expression, and Recognition-and by reproducing this act we may begin to grasp, by analogy, the Trinity.
- Philip Yancey
In a sense, Job must replay the original test of the garden of Eden, with the bar raised higher. Living in paradise, Adam and Eve faced a best-case scenario for trusting God, who asked so little of them and showered down blessings. In a living hell, Job faces the worst-case scenario: God asks so much, while curses rain down on him.
- Philip Yancey
One reason the broader world does not look to Christianity for guidance is that we Christians have not spoken with a credible voice.
- Philip Yancey
Apart from the requirement that we be authentic before God, there is no prescribed way to pray. Each of us presents a unique mix of personality, outlook, training, gifts, and weaknesses, as well as a unique history with church and with God. As Roberta Bondi says, "If you are praying, you are already 'doing it right.
- Philip Yancey
When I pray, coincidences happen," said Archbishop William Temple; "when I don't, they don't.
- Philip Yancey
It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.
- Philip Yancey
Jesus did not mix his spirituality with politics.
- Philip Yancey